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A slim woman with a sleek dark bob and round tortoiseshell glasses in a waterproof olive jacket shades her eyes to look up at breaking clouds beside a small white weather station on a tripod with a slim rain gauge and a wind vane at the edge of a meadow with a stream glinting in the distance.

Field Scientist Checks the Sky Beside the Weather Station

A brown bear cub stands on its hind legs pulling a branch of ripe berries toward its mouth in a shrubby mountain clearing while its mother forages calmly a few metres behind it in diffuse midday light.

Bear Cub Reaches for Berries Beside Its Mother

An adult red fox digs at the entrance of its earth on a grassy bank with its front paws scraping soil back and a fresh mound of pale earth beside the widened hole in clear morning light, seen whole in side view.

Adult Fox Widens the Den Entrance in Morning Light

A family of otters and a heron stand in a row on the bank of an uphill-flowing green river watching the water flow up the slope past them, one otter holding a small fish toward the current, in soft cloudy light.

River Animals Watch the Water Flow Uphill

A long-tailed tit with a long tail clings to a thorny branch pulling a strand of pale spider silk across a half-formed domed nest of moss and lichen in dappled woodland-edge shade.

Long-Tailed Tit Binds a Domed Nest With Spider Silk

A finished round domed wren nest of woven moss and leaves with a small side entrance sits tucked into a mossy ivy bank with ivy leaves and fine roots around it in cool soft late light.

A Finished Wren Nest Rests in the Ivy Bank

At dusk three fox cubs file one by one into the round entrance of an earth on a grassy bank, the first half inside and the last on the slope looking back over its shoulder under a deep orange and blue glow.

Cubs Retreat One by One Into the Den

A smooth newt with a crested back rests on the pond floor beneath the overhang of a submerged flat stone with waterweed swaying beside it in the clear shallows of a pond under soft overcast light.

A Newt Rests Beneath a Submerged Pond Stone

Three fox cubs with fluffy grey-brown fur feed together at the mouth of an earth on a grassy bank with their heads down over a scrap of prey and their tails bunched behind them while a russet haunch shows in the dark entrance in diffuse midday light.

Three Cubs Feed Together at the Den Mouth

A great tit clings to the front of a wooden nest box in a garden tree and slips a small white feather held in its beak through the round entrance hole in diffuse overcast light.

Great Tit Carries a Feather Into the Nest Box

A young red fox kit balances carefully along a fallen mossy log at the edge of a woodland with its front paws placed one in front of the other and its fluffy tail held out for balance above ferns and bluebells in soft morning side light.

Fox Kit Balances Along a Fallen Mossy Log

A common kingfisher with an orange chest and electric blue back perches on a weathered reed stem above a slow river at golden hour with a small silver fish in its beak.

Common Kingfisher Holding a Fish on a Reed Stem

A cold wax painting of a woodland soil cross-section in layers: leaf litter on top, a crumbling oak log with a curled beetle larva, dark humus threaded with white fungal strands, and pale mineral soil, with tree roots growing down through them.

Cross-Section of Woodland Soil Beneath a Decaying Oak Log

A small pale spider with long legs stretches one front leg across the narrow gap between two weathered slate tiles on a garden wall with its other legs holding the near tile edge, the whole spider in side view with a shallow focus plane in bright diffuse light.

Small Spider Tests the Gap Between Slate Tiles

A song thrush stands on a flat stone beside a low mossy wall holding a garden snail in its beak with fragments of broken snail shell scattered around the stone in bright overcast light.

A Song Thrush Cracks a Snail on Its Stone

A red fox trots up a grassy bank toward its earth carrying a limp rabbit in its jaws with its head held high and ears forward in mid-morning light with dew on the grass, seen whole in side view.

Fox Returns to the Earth Carrying Prey

A pair of impala drinks quickly at the rim of a shallow waterhole at dusk with heads down and ears flicked back, an orange sky behind the acacia and a band of pink light on the water.

Impala Pair Drinks Fast at the Waterhole at Dusk

A common frog sits at the reeded edge of a pond with its throat sac puffed out in a calling posture and its forelegs braced on a muddy bank among reed stems with still water reflecting the warm evening sky.

A Frog Calls With Puffed Throat at the Reeds

A large dog fox sits upright on the mound above an earth on a grassy bank with his chest out and ears turned toward a dark treeline, his thick russet coat edged with golden light and long shadows across the grass in low evening side light.

Dog Fox Sits Upright and Watches the Treeline

A group of about a dozen barnacle geese of one species rests and preens on short green turf among grey boulders on a small rocky island with open sea on every side under a pale afternoon sky.

Barnacle Geese Rest and Preen on a Rocky Island

A wood pigeon lands in a high tree fork with its wings half open carrying one stout twig in its bill toward a loose flat platform of crossed sticks against a pale sky in clear morning light.

Wood Pigeon Brings a Stout Twig to the Platform

At dusk in warm low light a hedgehog trundles through a small purpose-made square gap at the base of a weathered wooden garden fence with its snout through and its spiny back catching the golden light and long grass on both sides of the fence line.

Hedgehog Passes Through the Gap in the Garden Fence

On a slow willow-lined river in low golden light a small otter pup swims beside the adult otter with its head and whiskers above the water and the adult just ahead showing it the way with golden ripples and willow branches hanging low overhead.

Otter Pup Swims Beside the Adult on the River

A pink earthworm lies at the wet soil surface beneath the edge of a weathered wooden board lifted from a woodland floor with glistening leaf mould and droplets on the board in grey wet light.

An Earthworm Surfaces Under a Board After Rain

A leopard walking toward the viewer through mud.

Leopard approaching slowly through the mud

A grey squirrel with an arched tail runs along the top of a low mossy brick wall carrying a whole walnut in its mouth toward the hollow of an old oak in soft morning side light.

A Squirrel Carries a Walnut Along the Wall

A small hoverfly with a yellow and black banded abdomen hovers in mid-air just in front of the orange cone of a large pink coneflower with its wings blurred in bright midday sun.

A Hoverfly Hangs in the Air Before the Cone

A slim woman with a sleek dark bob and round tortoiseshell glasses in waders and a waterproof olive jacket stands ankle-deep in a clear shallow stream holding a glass sample jar of water up against a grey sky with a thoughtful look while the water ripples around her boots.

Field Scientist Holds a Water Sample to the Light

A small tortoiseshell butterfly with orange wings edged in black with blue spots rests on the orange cone of a large pink coneflower with its wings spread flat and rose-pink petals drooping below in warm afternoon light.

A Small Tortoiseshell Opens Its Wings on the Cone

Tiny tadpoles and small fry cluster among the trailing roots and submerged stems of floating water lily pads in clear brown-green water of a calm pond under soft overcast light.

Pond Fry and Tadpoles Gather Under the Water Lilies

A red deer hind wades carefully through a shallow clear stream crossing at the edge of a woodland with water to her knees and her head up and ears forward toward the far bank of ferns and birch trunks with mist over the water in soft morning side light.

Red Deer Hind Wades the Shallow Stream Crossing

A wooden nest box on a garden fence post has two entrance holes at different heights and two separate perches with a small blue tit on the lower perch and a second small tit on the upper perch each fully visible in soft diffuse light.

Two Tits Share One Nest Box

Close vertical 3D-render of a beaver wearing a yellow hard hat and harness, holding wooden plans in front of a detailed treehouse, composed for a 2:3 portrait poster-cover.

beaver construction worker 3d-render

An orb-weaver spider hangs at the centre of a freshly spun round web beaded with a few drops between two hazel stems in a hedge beside a mossy brick wall in diffuse overcast light.

An Orb-Weaver Finishes Its Web in the Hedge

A group of seven zebra waits back from the rim of a shallow waterhole standing alert with heads up and ears forward in midday heat haze with an acacia silhouette behind.

Zebra Group Waits Back From the Rim Alert

A single giraffe stands with its front legs splayed wide and neck lowered to drink at the edge of a shallow waterhole in early morning with a long shadow across the flat rock rim and an acacia behind.

Giraffe Splays Its Legs to Drink at the Waterhole

Four people stand and sit in a loose group on a hilltop field with heads tipped back looking up at the same patch of blue daytime sky as a white telescope points up behind them beside camp chairs and a table.

The Group Looks Up at One Patch of Sky

Branch office: a compact glass office surrounds a thick horizontal tree branch that runs through the room as a desk and support beam among forest trees.

Branch office — built around tree

At a small forest stream in late-afternoon light a young deer fawn stands at the bank with one front hoof lifted and its ears forward hesitating to cross while the doe waits calmly on the far bank with dappled light on the water.

Fawn Hesitates at the Stream as the Doe Waits

A tight flock of about thirty dunlin of one species rests shoulder to shoulder on wet pebbles at the waterline of a shingle shoreline at low tide on an overcast morning, small waves lapping and the grey sea beyond.

Dunlin Rest Shoulder to Shoulder on a Shingle Shore

Two small brown sparrows sit settled on a bare lichen-covered branch facing opposite directions with sleek feathers and a clear gap of empty branch between them in steady grey light.

Two Sparrows Settle With a Careful Gap Between Them

An empty pale spiral shell rests beside an occupied shell with a small hermit crab's claws and legs showing, side by side on the wet granite rim of a tide pool, a few barnacles and a trace of seaweed around them in low raking light.

Empty Shell Beside an Occupied Shell at the Rim

A shrimp rests on an exposed rock with its legs tucked and its antennae angled forward in clear shallow water.

Shrimp Resting on an Exposed Rock

Three people huddle under one large umbrella at a hilltop field edge with a telescope case at their feet looking at one bright star-like point through a gap in the clouds while one holds a steaming thermos cup.

A Gap in the Cloud Shows One Bright Point

A small group of young crabs and juvenile shrimp cluster in the shade under an overhanging barnacled rock ledge with tiny blennies tucked in the cracks below and green seaweed trailing in a clear still tidal rock pool.

Young Crabs and Blennies Shelter in a Tide Pool

A moorhen with a red and yellow bill places one dry twig on a floating reed nest platform at the edge of a still pond in low golden evening light with reed stalks behind it.

Moorhen Places a Twig on the Waterside Nest Platform

A slim woman with a sleek dark bob and round tortoiseshell glasses in a waterproof olive jacket crouches at the muddy bank of a meadow stream with her hands resting on her knees studying the dark soil layers showing through a small clear plastic corer pushed into the bank in soft overcast light.

Field Scientist Studies a Soil Core by the Stream

A browning oak leaf with ragged edges lies on a damp woodland floor with a small group of grey woodlice grazing along its edge in cool dawn light.

Woodlice Graze the Ragged Edges at Dawn

A herd of buffalo wallows in the shallow brown water of a waterhole in the afternoon with dust hanging in the golden air, mud-streaked backs and a flat rock rim and acacia behind.

Buffalo Herd Wallows in the Shallows in Afternoon Dust

A painted turtle basks on a mossy log at the edge of a calm pond with its reflection in the water below in dappled golden sunlight.

Turtle Basking on a Mossy Log in Golden Light

A slim woman with a sleek dark bob and round tortoiseshell glasses in a waterproof olive jacket sits on a flat rock beside a stream with her chin on her knees and binoculars at her neck watching a heron standing in the shallows and small birds on the reeds in soft late-afternoon light.

Field Scientist Sits Quietly Watching the Habitat

A slim woman with a sleek dark bob in a plain slate-grey crew jumpsuit floats at a small habitat observation window peering through a small hand-held telescope with her free hand braced on the frame and her tortoiseshell glasses pushed up into her hair as the blue curve of a planet and sunlit clouds fill the window.

A Crewmate Studies the Planet Through a Small Telescope

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